Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1851
CBTM:
21776
Map Date:
1851
Repository reference:
NLS [county folder]
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Edinburgh, Leith
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT257736
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2770
Map title:
'Johnston's plan of Edinburgh & Leith in 1851. From actual survey by Alfred Lancefield C.E. F.S.A.Scot.'
Comments on map:
Scales of imperial and Scottish chains (74.1196 feet), and feet and yards.
Scale:
1:4800
Map-maker:
Alfred Lancefield C.E. F.S.A. Scot [sv], W. & A.K. Johnston Geographers & Engravers to the Queen, 4 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh [eng, pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
126 x 163
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, harbours, piers
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, misc: Filter for supplying water to vessels at Granton Pier, named wells.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Castle, Fort, Martello Tower; appropriation names in castle]; Royal Naval & Military Academy.
Welfare and charitable:
blind, deaf & dumb, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Gladstone Asylum, John Watson's Institution.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets: Pens in Cattle Market.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Parliamentary boundaries.
Known copies of map:
CW53, 112: CUL Maps.b.18.G.12, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.851 [42191, D.36185], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], Edinburgh City Archives 11.c.1, NLS EMS.b.2.45, Newman 1091, NASc RHP 2807, RSGS 1-1/362 [1851]; NLS [website]; Edinburgh Library YDA 1828.861 [G.8889], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NLS EMS.b.2.163 [original], EMS.p.53 [photo] [1861]; NLS [Barts Archive], RSGS [1864
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, glass, ship yards, uncertain, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Mills.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: [Low water springs. Reverse italic for water names].
Gardens:
shown, horticultural gardens: Extensive garden ornament; [Horticultural Society's Garden].
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, art galleries
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
A few isolated tombs; ruins of chapel and convent; some historical notes, e.g. on confinement of Mary Queen of Scots at Craigmillar Castle, and list of royal occupants of Holyrood Palace.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies, unspecified
Relief:
prominent hills: More prominent hills: Arthurs Seat looks rather fluid, and the hachuring is far below the standard of the rest of the engraving.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments, statues
Post and telegraphs:
post offices, misc: Signal Tower.
Cemeteries:
shown: Groups of tombs indicated in burial grounds.
Garden and park buildings:
sundials: [Queen Mary's Sun Dial].
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, soundings, spot heights: Top left: notes on tide ranges; bottom centre: altitudes are referred to approximate half distance at Victoria Dock, Liverpool. Dense network of soundings, with a few notes of sea-bottom material. Bench marks to 0.1 ft, spot heights to 1 ft. Arthurs Seat is 822, a value used by Johnston on the 1:12,000 [Exeter 21763].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1851-3
1:1056
1:10,560
1876-7
1:1056
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1851-3
1:1056
1:10,560
1876-7
1:1056
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1851-3
1:1056
1:10,560
1876-7
1:1056
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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